🚨 Job alert 🚨 Postdoc position in ecological forecasting 📈 as part of the Horizon Europe OSCARS call. The postdoc will be based in lovely Sevilla (fantastic place to live) and will include working closely with several European forecasting projects. Apply by Dec 11! 🌎🧪 globalchangeeco.com/jobs

His life's work is the infection of children with preventable illnesses, why the fuck would you try to help him win

Nothing hits like a paper acceptance email coming in after a long day in the field!!! 🥂🥂 Exciting (long overdue) paper coming your way soon :)

We're hiring! 🥳 Come and join our team in Lancaster - we're looking for two senior postdocs to work on corporate sustainability and restoration ecology. 🌳 🪸 ♻️ (1 of 2) @lec-reefs.bsky.social @pentlandcentre.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social

Join our session to discuss the role of art in coral reef conservation at the International Coral Reef Symposium in Auckland, New Zealand July 19-24, 2026. Abstract deadline Dec 1, 2025. 🧪🪸🌎🌊🧬🌐🌿🐡🐙

reviewers, it's thankless work but definitely make sure to look over code now more than ever!!

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For those who aren't familiar, H1B visas aren't just used in the tech industry. They are also widely used by universities, hospitals, engineering firms, and other industries that rely on extensive training. Fees were previously under $5k -- still high, but doable, and many employers would pay them.

Each Friday, I summarize what is happening to American science & higher ed. 🧪 This was Week 35: - executive order on H-1B visas - travesty of vaccine advisory council updates MMRV & COVID recs - Texas A&M fires president - California faculty file suit & so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this! The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems 📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

If you have published anything, please consider doing this. The window is closing and you should get your details registered now for a chance at a settlement. The form works wherever in the world you are based.

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mushroom season is keeping me sane in this final phd push! Saffron milkcaps, chanterelles, and dryad's saddle!

Necessary tools from the bad old days (or: the smallest taste of why marriage equality matters.)

🚨 Proceedings B is recruiting new Data Editors! Join our editorial board to help ensure data/code transparency across biology. 🗓 Term: 3 yrs from Jan 2026 📩 Apply by 30 Sep 2025 with a 2-page CV + cover letter: [email protected] 🔗 Info: [email protected] /[email protected]

This is how I feel with the changes to hermatypic coral taxonomy!!!

6 years in Scotland and I only just found out about one of the most fossiliferous beaches in the UK! Lots of crinoids, solitary corals, and bryozans 🤩

Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.

You know if you’re struggling and you need to time or space to get stuff some, it’s okay to say you’re having a health issue and leave it at that. Mental health is health. You don’t need to say if it’s an appendectomy or a hip replacement or depression or BPD.

For every conversation, I'd like to add a footnote to "I'm doing great!"¹ ¹ Notwithstanding the hellscape of authoritarian rule, genocide, federal goons roaming my city kidnapping innocent people and putting them into concentration camps, and livelihood threatened by nincompoops in charge.

I'm back home with my dad and have thoughts about being an Indigenous scientist and academic. I'm writing this in real time so it might get disrupted and will have typos. I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.

Does anyone know of a blog/resource similar to Zuur & Ieno 2016 (besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) that shows explicitly how model notation should be presented for zero-inflated GLMMs or GAMMs?

You will have to pry my em dashes from my cold, dead hands.

3-year #Postdoc opportunity at the University of York! I am #hiring a Postdoc to join my URF project on exploring how #biodiversity change is unfolding in the #Anthropocene. Deadline: 10th August 2025. All details and the link to apply: shorturl.at/qOQst @anthropocenebio.bsky.social #ecology

Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.

Heard of "Darwin's paradox"? It refers to Charles Darwin's observation that coral reefs are wildly productive despite occurring in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. Reefs are, so the story goes, oases in marine deserts 🏝️... Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong... 🌐 🦑🧪 🧵⬇️

There is still time to apply for this post. DL extended until 15 June. Read more and apply 👇 @biologylu.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu #HotLife

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Its that time again - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2026 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/2XTHBP6CZGEn... Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share! 🧪

Don't know where to start? Don't worry! We have developed an R package to get you started. #BioTIMEr now provides tools to interact with the database and some useful tips and examples. Our website is also getting an uplift in the upcoming days, so stay tuned!

Are you a community/macro ecologist? Looking for more data? Sick of compiling/cleaning data?? 🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐

🚨New data paper/open data alert!🚨 BioTIME v2.0 is out now! We've expanded the database with improved spatial and taxonomic coverage, with a new R package! As always, free, public, and open acess :) Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Database: biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk

I haven't gone back to China since protesting in Hong Kong in 2020 because they were doing these same authoritarian phone checks. It's terrifying to see the US switch to fascism in the blink of an admin change.

Detained in an ICE camp over a customs form technicality and facing deportation to Russia where she will be persecuted for vocal opposition to the invasion of Ukraine. She does bioinformatics

happy international women’s day to all women, including but not limited to trans women nonbinary women disabled women neurodivergent women autistic women ADHD women cis women aromantic women bi women asexual women queer women women who are good at math and women who sincerely love lizards

If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti... Please share widely

📢New paper!! 📢using #BioTIME #timeseries we showed that faster rates of #turnover in community composition were associated with faster rates of #temperature #change across biomes, for both cooling & warming + microclimate availability & human impacts modulate these responses go.nature.com/3WD7cWa

I'm not surprised but I got chills down my back. NOAA?!

Today marks one of the saddest day in my professional career. I am reading about several hundert employees fired from NOAA. NOAA provides critical services for the US but also globally. (1/2)

🚨NEW VACANCIES!🚨 Our Offshore Renewables group are seeking TWO ecological statisticians to join the growing team. Both are permanent roles- more info: www.bioss.ac.uk/vacancies/ec... 📆Deadline: 27th Mar 2025 #StatisticalEcology #OffshoreRenewables #Statistics #DataScience #Seabirds #MarineMammals

developing code for a biig analysis means that you celebrate every error/NA free code step, but then hindsight is 20/20 and you see how dumb you were a week ago 🥸🤪 y a y

The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!) democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

🐠🧪🎓 New position alert: I am looking for a full-time research technician to work on my NSF CAREER project. Perks: ✅ SCUBA-based fieldwork in Belize 🤿 ✅ Chemistry labwork 🧪 ✅ Lots of fish and fun(ctions) 🐠📈😀 Deadline: Feb 21st utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/... Please share widely.

I cannot be ending the year losing my mind like this

finishing trait compilation before the holidays feels damn great

what do you MEAN these are gobies?????

We've been cooking something up 6 years in the making with BioTIME and I'm super excited to have it go out in the world soon!

Just a kind reminder to please use alt text for people who use assistive technology. Advertising positions with important details in non-machine readable media (like screenshots of word docs, videos) without alt text enforces ableism at the very start of recruitment. #EcoECRcareer